Bugs item #1598357, was opened at 2006-11-17 08:40
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Category: Windows
Group: Python 2.5
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: thorvinrhuebarb (thorvinrhuebarb)
>Assigned to: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Summary: import curses fails
Initial Comment:
I am new to python and teaching myself.
I downloaded and installed python 2.5 for windows from the main page, accepting
all defaults.
python is installed in c:\Python25
I am able to import everything else I have tried sucessfully. "sys", "os", self
written code.
There is a "curses" subfolder in the c:\Python25\Lib folder it contains
.py versions of all of the following files
__init__
ascii
has_key
panel
textpad
wrapper
The documentation includes curses in the "Generic Operating System Services"
>From what I have read this should indicate that can uses curses in windows
>(even though this was not the case in previous versions of python).
When I attempt to "import curses" I get the following result.
>>> import curses
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
import curses
File "C:\Python25\Lib\curses\__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses
I am unsure if this is an error in documentation and curses does not in fact
work with windows or if there is an error in the default windows installation.
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>Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2006-11-17 08:45
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The C curses library is not available for Windows. (Ports are available,
but I've never seen anyone build Python with them and make the resulting
binary available.)
The 'curses' directory is present, but using it relies on an underlying C
extension for Python called '_curses'; it's _curses that can't be built
for Windows.
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